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August 01, 2008 — CIO —
The large amount of data being stored on personal computers and hard drives has caused many business users to download consumer search tools, such as Google Desktop, to find the documents they need. In a new report, Leslie Owens, a Forrester analyst, warns this consumer-driven discovery method puts company data at risk and behooves IT departments to adopt enterprise-worthy desktop search tools with administrative capabilities.
In a survey of 565 online consumers who use computers at work during the day, 32 percent said they have downloaded desktop search software. The only two pieces of consumer technology to outpace desktop search was instant messaging software (38 percent) and Web browsers (35 percent).
According to Forrester's Owens, consumers gravitated towards these desktop search tools because the ones that came installed on their machines proved inadequate.
"People are just looking for productivity enhancers because there is just so much information to look through," she says.
The dangers of employees downloading consumer search tools? Owens offered the following examples:
Owens recommends buying a enterprise desktop search tool, such as Google Desktop Enterprise Edition, Microsoft Windows Search 4.0, Copernic Desktop Search Corporate Edition, ISYS:desktop; and X1 Professional client.
Such tools, she says, offer centrally managed consoles that let enterprises control access.